How to Convert UTC Date To Local time Zone in MySql Select Query

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I am using this Where Condition in One Of my query with MySql Database.My Problem is that i have one displaytime column in my table but that table column shows the data in UTC Time.and i want to convert that displaytime column in the Local Time Zone.so how can i provide this facility from query itself.

I have goggled the things and by that i knew that something like SELECT CONVERT_TZ() will work for that.but its not working for me.

Here is my query in which i need to convert displaytime to local time zone...so can anyone please guide me?

WHERE displaytime >= '2012-12-01 00:00:00'
  AND displaytime <='2013-02-22 23:59:59'
  AND ct.organizationId IN (
    SELECT t.organizationId
      FROM organization_ AS t
      JOIN organization_ AS p ON t.treePath LIKE CONCAT(p.treePath, '%')
     WHERE p.organizationId = 10707

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Looks like your mysql timezone table is empty. You have to run mysql_tzinfo_to_sql command for CONVERT_TZ() to work correctly. — ursuleacv, Jun 06 '15 at 19:16
If you have the offset, you could use this function DATE_ADD(displaytime, INTERVAL {+-YOUR_OFFSET_IN_MINUTES} MINUTE). There is no need to use IF/ELSE statement for DATE_SUB, use always DATE_ADD, sub or add will apply depending on the offcet value which could be positive or negative. — vinsa, Aug 01 '19 at 00:38

score 137 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 21 '18 at 20:52

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SELECT CONVERT_TZ() will work for that.but its not working for me.

Why, what error do you get?

SELECT CONVERT_TZ(displaytime,'GMT','MET');

should work if your column type is timestamp, or date

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_convert-tz

Test how this works:

SELECT CONVERT_TZ(a_ad_display.displaytime,'+00:00','+04:00');

Check your timezone-table

SELECT * FROM mysql.time_zone;
SELECT * FROM mysql.time_zone_name;

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/time-zone-support.html

If those tables are empty, you have not initialized your timezone tables. According to link above you can use mysql_tzinfo_to_sql program to load the Time Zone Tables. Please try this

shell> mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /usr/share/zoneinfo

or if not working read more: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/mysql-tzinfo-to-sql.html

edited Nov 21 '18 at 20:52

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its giving me null value SELECT CONVERT_TZ(a_ad_display.displaytime,'GMT','MET') as date_ from a_ad_display; My Column is Type of DATETIME – BhavikKama Feb 22 '13 at 06:23
Can you post what SHOW CREATE TABLE a_ad_display\G; will display – iiro Feb 22 '13 at 06:24
That gives no help. Please give your table structure and sample data. – iiro Feb 22 '13 at 06:31
In My table Structure that is one column for which i want to convert Local DAte its type is [DATETIME] ..please see my updated question for sample data – BhavikKama Feb 22 '13 at 06:39
If that is sample data then you get nulls because your column values are null. Thus, I think that is sample result, not sample data? Anyway, I edited my answer. – iiro Feb 22 '13 at 06:41
So i cant use GMT OR UTC IN SELECT CONVERT_TZ(displaytime,'GMT','MET');? – BhavikKama Feb 22 '13 at 06:50
did you check your timezone table ? – iiro Feb 22 '13 at 09:39
where should be the timezone table?i done have time zone table? – BhavikKama Feb 22 '13 at 10:12
sorry, my mistake: select * From mysql.time_zone; – iiro Feb 22 '13 at 10:46
YEs, you have to load your timezone info into db. Check my answer. – iiro Feb 22 '13 at 12:24
Yo la utilizo así: SELECT CREADO AS ORIGINAL, CONVERT_TZ(CREADO,'GMT','America/Mexico_City'), COMMENTS FROM bd_mybd.tblcomments; | – Pedro Castillo Nov 09 '16 at 17:35
@PedroCastillo sori, en ymmärrä mitä kirjotat. – iiro Nov 09 '16 at 18:44

Felix Geenen · Answer 2 · 2017-04-06T14:31:03.633

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In my case, where the timezones are not available on the server, this works great:

SELECT CONVERT_TZ(`date_field`,'+00:00',@@global.time_zone) FROM `table`

Note: global.time_zone uses the server timezone. You have to make sure, that it has the desired timezone!

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answered Jun 30 '14 at 11:05

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I am getting 10-15 seconds more in UTC timestamp. – Shashank Shah Feb 16 '17 at 06:37

score 17 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:02

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 select convert_tz(now(),@@session.time_zone,'+05:30')

replace '+05:30' with desired timezone. see here - https://stackoverflow.com/a/3984412/2359994

to format into desired time format, eg:

 select DATE_FORMAT(convert_tz(now(),@@session.time_zone,'+05:30') ,'%b %d %Y %h:%i:%s %p')

you will get similar to this -> Dec 17 2014 10:39:56 AM

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